High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sprouts is a pencil-and-paper game with interesting mathematical properties. It was first played by mathematicians John Horton Conway and Michael S. Paterson at Cambridge University in 1967. The game is played by two players, starting with a few spots drawn on a sheet of paper. Players take turns, where each turn consists of drawing a line between two spots (or from a spot to itself) and adding a new spot somewhere along the line. The players are constrained by the following rules. * The line may be straight or curved, but must not touch or cross itself or any other line. * The new spot cannot be placed on top of one of the endpoints of the new line. Thus the new spot splits the line into two shorter lines. * No spot may have more than three lines attached to it. For the purposes of this rule, a line from the spot to itself counts as two attached lines and new spots are counted as having two lines already attached to them.

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